Tainted soil being removed from Pa. factory site

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has decided to remove 3,600 cubic yards of contaminated soil from the site of a former factory in the Philadelphia suburb of Doylestown.

The Intelligencer reports (http://bit.ly/XB6OFq ) the EPA says the project will take about 50 days and cost about $2.25 million. Officials don't know when the project will start at the site of the former Chem-Fab electroplating factory.

Doylestown officials say they are going to reach out to their representatives in Congress to see if they can help the EPA get the money it needs for the project.

State and federal officials have been monitoring the site since the 1960s, when it was the Chem-Fab factory. Officials cited the factory several times in the 1960s for spills and release of industrial waste.